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I am planning a flight to the Geelong area, and would appreciate your recommendations for best airfield to land and leave the plane overnight (RV7-A).

Ideally...

- close to Geelong

- sealed runway or smooth grass or gravel

- safe to leave plane tied down

- avgas available

- car hire nearby

Does Avalon have parking for GA?

Considering Barwon Heads or Torquay and will appreciate any local knowledge and suggestions!

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Avalon would let you park there, but getting from and to your plane -security and everything..... good luck. They do not/never did have avgas. Lethbridge is close for fuel. Rental cars - yes. https://avalonairport.com.au/technical-operational-facilities/

 

Barwon (avgas yes) Lethbridge (avgas yes) and Torq (avgas dunno) - rental cars: nowhere near them. Closest is Geelong. AVIS is 13km from Barwon H.

Numerous private airfields all over the place down there, no avgas.

 

Visiting peeps? Touring around by Road?

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Any decent car hire operator will arrange to deliver your hired car to your location, if it's not an unreasonable difference.

I even had one car hire operator arrange with an employee to re-open his business after hours at no cost, when I arrived late, and they had shut for the day.

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Thanks a lot for all your comments 440032 and onetrack. Lethbridge may be a good option, hadn't considered it yet.

Will be visiting Geelong, then travelling by road. Thanks.

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Sorry, I only just realised I put "difference", when it should've been "distance". The time for editing elapsed before I picked it up.

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On 07/03/2024 at 11:35 AM, Flyingfish said:

Thanks a lot for all your comments 440032 and onetrack. Lethbridge may be a good option, hadn't considered it yet.

Will be visiting Geelong, then travelling by road. Thanks.

The best thing about Geelong - great kickoff point to places that are actually interesting.

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